David Moore and David Ermold, whom Kim Davis denied a marriage license. “And now it’s time for the government of this country to step back and let us”, Perkins said. In her absence, her deputies have issued at least seven licenses to gay couples. I assume she is smart enough to know this.
Planting Peace erected a billboard in Kim Davis’ hometown of Morehead, KY, that reads: “Dear Kim Davis, The fact that you can’t sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we’ve already redefined marriage”. Davis is not only causing a vast separation between the gay community and the police and government, but is poorly representing her county and soiling Kentucky’s reputation.
The Supreme Court does not make laws.
That decision helped spur a frenzy of state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage later that year, including in Kentucky, where three-quarters of the electorate affirmed a definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman.
“It was tough. I thought about resigning”, he said. Davis was jailed because she openly and intentionally defied the law. Most Americans side with Moore and Ermold over Davis. “I felt like there should be someone that she should answer to for this”.
In their briefs API and ACAP argued there was precedence for rejecting a U.S. Supreme Court mandate believed to be unlawful. “I want a legal system that understands difference of fighting war and fighting a crime”.
“While my case may be the most visible right now, there are millions of other people out there in the private and the public sector who face and are in the same position and they also need reasonable accommodations”, she said.
They held rallies and demonstrations, standing with signs and chanting, “like a good old Northampton kind of protest, on a smaller scale”, Shannon said.
About a third of those surveyed in the Post-ABC poll say Davis should not be forced to issue the licenses.
She is exercising civil authority, not religious. Being an elected official, Davis probably violated her oath of office by her actions, and may face losing her job.
Now the Family Research Council has announced that, at the Values Voter Summit next week, Kim Davis will be the recipient of the “Cost of Discipleship Award”, and will be honored along with her lawyer, Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel. But Davis refused, leading the judge to jail her for contempt. He released her after five days but required that she not interfere with her deputies issuing the licenses in her place. “She is imposing her own view of God on others when it her job to enforce the law that allows gay couples of marry”.
The non-profit organization Planting Peace that also supports the LGBT community put up a billboard that criticizes Davis’ anti-gay belief and her personal interpretation of the Bible. “Instead, the license will state that they are issued pursuant to a federal court order”.